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Chalmers University: battery development will reduce electric aircraft life cycle impact

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Impact categories under consideration included global warming from greenhouse gas emissions, mineral resource scarcity from the use of rare minerals, particle emissions, acidic emissions and ground-level ozone formation.

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Amorim Cork Composites introduces new range of sealants for EV batteries

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Portugal-based Amorim Cork Composites, building on past development of sealing and aerospace applications, has introduced a range of products for sealing, housing and cell spacing that are designed to protect key components of EV batteries by preventing heat propagation during thermal runaway episodes.

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Con Edison Contracts Its Biggest Battery to Date in New York City

GreenTechMedia

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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Healthy choices helper?

Envirotec Magazine

Because it’s mobile and battery operated, you can walk around and start figuring out the hotspots on your own, says Kiirsk. The device typically operates for 2-3 weeks from a 400mAh battery, with 7 weeks being the longest it can run. Ozone and NOx seem to present the greatest danger to human health, suggests Kiirsk.

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Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly

Grist

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. It’s also terrible for the climate.

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Four ways DuPont adhesives and resins advance EVs

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For example, crash-worthy adhesives that bond body and battery components along with performance polymers and thermal interface materials that safely manage battery temperature. Safer, cooler, and longer-lasting batteries. EV batteries must be crash-durable for safety. Operation outside this range can strain batteries.

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Is It Possible To Prevent Global Warming?

The Environmental Blog

In the atmosphere, there have been significant increases in the amount of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases that reduce the concentration of ozone (O3) and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O). What Are the Gases Causing Global Warming?